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The dramatic stopping of the investigations and 13th memorial anniversary of the murder of our brother OURY JALLOH

Berlin, 05.01.2018
Press
Release of PEACE (Peer Exchange of African Communities for Empowerment)
Network and The VOICE Refugee Forum Network in Germany to the dramatic
stopping of the investigations and 13th memorial anniversary of the
murder of our brother OURY JALLOH.

“We stated from the beginning of our calls and campaigns since 2005
that Oury Jalloh was murdered but very few believed us. Now the
mainstream talks of murder while we suffer from scars inflicted on us by
the state and the society, in the span of 13 years” (Mbolo Yufanyi from
The VOICE Refugee Forum and PEACE International)

"Oury Jalloh Struggle Lives On ! – Demonstration on 07.01.2018 in Dessau"
On the 7th of January 2018, it will be 13 years since Oury Jalloh, a
brother from Sierra Leone was brutally murdered at the hands of the
German police in the city of Dessau, Germany. For 13 years, The VOICE
Network and the African/Black Community has stood besides the Initiative
in remembrance of Oury Jalloh and supported its call for “TRUTH,
JUSTICE and REPARATIONS”, especially to our brother’s family. Almost 13
years have gone and the German state and Police have responded with
“LIES, INJUSTICE and continuous BRUTALITY”.
The Chief Attorney Heike Geyer from Halle announced in her press
release of 12 October 2017, that she had after careful examination of
the available evidence [...] “closed the investigation of the death of
Oury Jalloh" because allegedly there is not sufficient evidence and new
knowledge to his death was not to be expected, since "a multitude of
possibilities are conceivable" and consequently a suicide cannot be
ruled out.
We should remember that on the day of the murder of OURY JALLOH on
January 7, 2005, a hypothesis was already established and documented
before the beginning of the crime investigation: "Now I'm going to the
basement, where a black African denizen in a detention cell has lit
himself." These were the words of the first investigators from Stendal
who later destroyed more that 1 hr of video evidence that they collected
from the cell where our brother was murdered.
From the different fire investigations and reports independently
organised and sponsored by the Initiative in Remembrance of Oury Jalloh
and also following recent reports from National media, it could not have
been possible for our brother to commit suicide
The majority of the experts in the fields of fire protection,
medicine and chemistry came to the conclusion that the condition of the
cell and the body after the fire can not be explained without the use of
small amounts of accelerators such as light gasoline, according to
Monitor. In addition, the theory of self-burning is as good as to rule
out: “Oury Jalloh was at the beginning of fire probably completely
incapacitated or even already dead", quoting Süddeutsche newspaper from
16.11.2017
Following the chronology of the German history especially with
respect to Africa in particular but also Europe, we are not surprised of
the heinous crime carried out by the German police and covered up by
their justice system. There is an African Proverb that says, "When you
follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him."
This continuous colonial reality, reflected through organized killing
of (to be) Migrants in the Mediterranean, the deportation practices,
the investigations against relatives of the victims of NSU or the rise
of the AfD and other right-wing entities in Germany and Europe, the
criminalization of refugees especially Africans, make it more important
than ever for African/Black people to come together to challenge and
fight these evils of the 21th Century.
Remembering and fighting for justice for Oury Jalloh, Layé Kondé,
Mariama Sarr, Christy Schwundeck, Dominique Kuomadio (the list goes on)
and all the others is a matter of self-defense.
The more united we are in challenging and defending ourselves and
values against these monsters of the 21th Century, the more we expose
the cracks of a world order and systems that have failed us and Humanity
in general and will destroy us and Humanity if we do not stop them.
OURY JALLOH IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL CASE — NO ONE WILL BE FORGOTTEN!
RESPECT OUR EXISTENCE – OR – EXPECT OUR RESISTANCE!
Black Nation Germany: Auf zur Oury Jalloh Demo am 07.01.2018 in Dessauhttp://thevoiceforum.org/node/4450
Pressemitteilung des Zentralrates der afrikanischen Gemeinde in Deutschland
Solidarität mit der „Initiative zum Gedenken an Oury Jalloh“ gegen rassistische Bewegungen“http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4446
Aufruf zur Demo am 07.01.2018 in Dessau
Update on: https://initiativeouryjalloh.wordpress.com/
Our community is the media!
Contact for Reference and inquiry:
Dr. Mbolo Yufanyi
+49 (0) 1708788124.
Reference:http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/tod-von-oury-jalloh-ard-bericht-oury-...https://www.facebook.com/monitor.wdr/videos/1609164162455851/?fref=mentionshttps://www.zhaw.ch/storage/shared/sozialearbeit/News/gutachten-entwickl...https://vimeo.com/79113052